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Thursday, January 15, 2015

A creative challenge open to all members of Etsy! Create a treasury
around the Inspiration Item. Win the Challenge and the Inspiration Item
for the next Challenge will be something of yours! Who knows how many
treasuries will be created with your item!?

Carye from CaryeVDPMahoney will
be judging the Challenge this week. It is totally up to her as to what
she is looking for. Make the best treasury you can and just maybe one
of your items will be featured in our next Challenge! Please read the
guidelines carefully before creating your treasury.

Failure to follow these 9 steps will disqualify you from the challenge:

1. Read the guidelines.

2. Include the Inspiration Item in any of the first 4 spots.

3. Do not use more than one item from any shop in your treasury. Use sixteen separate shops.

4. Leave a link to your treasury in our Entry thread on our team page
before Sunday at noon eastern. Please leave it one time only. Judges and
volunteers use this thread to find the current treasuries. You must
leave your link in the correct thread by the deadline to have
your treasury judged. Your link also needs to be there to have your
shop added to the sidebar list and to be added to the buyer account.

5. Tag your treasury with "nonteam" and "nonteamchallenge 221" (separated by a space before the number).

7. Only one entry per person if you have more than one Etsy account.
Only one entry per account if you have multiple people running a single
shop.

8. Support other participants - View/Comment/Click on as many other
treasuries in the Challenge as possible. Do not leave a link to your
treasury in the comments of another person's treasury.

9. Don't tag your non-team treasury with tags for other teams that you
are a member of. Our non-team treasuries are not meant to promote your
other teams.

*** Only participate if you'll be available to judge the next week's
Challenge - and report the winning treasury by the next Tuesday.
Judging is a hugely time-consuming job. There may be hundreds of
treasuries. Please only participate if you have the time to judge next
week.

*** Make sure that your shop is in compliance with Etsy's TOS. We won't
promote shops that are resellers, blatant copyright infringers,
purposeful mis-taggers, etc. Those shops are disqualified from winning
challenges.

Recommended (not required)...

* Become a follower of this blog to stay in touch with each new challenge, challenge winner, announcements, etc.

* Use items from other participating shops if you'd like and if their items fit your theme. Visit our Etsy buyer account to see items from shops that participated in the previous challenge.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

First, I want to thank Yoko again for choosing my treasury last week. I had such a fun week and she made it all possible!

I thought my pendant "We're all MAD here" would inspire some creative
treasuries and I was right. From the whimsical journeys through
Wonderland to the dark journeys through a tormented mind, I loved them
all. Thanks, everyone, for taking the time to play and feature me in
your MAD collections!

As usual, it was difficult to choose, but in the end I had to go with (drumroll...)Carye's "Follow your inner moonlight ~ don't hide the madness." It is
dark yet magical with a bit of fantasy mixed in with the madness. A
perfect composition that beautifully portrayed the mad theme. And who
can resist that beautiful teal color palette?

Congrats to Carye! She will be choosing the inspiration item for Challenge #221 from her shop CaryeVDPMahoney. She'll also be judging the Challenge. Check the team discussion page for a "Laying Odds" thread to make suggestions / predictions on the
inspiration item.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

A creative challenge open to all members of Etsy! Create a treasury
around the Inspiration Item. Win the Challenge and the Inspiration Item
for the next Challenge will be something of yours! Who knows how many
treasuries will be created with your item!?

Gayle from ATwistOfWhimsy will
be judging the Challenge this week. It is totally up to her as to what
she is looking for. Make the best treasury you can and just maybe one
of your items will be featured in our next Challenge! Please read the
guidelines carefully before creating your treasury.

Failure to follow these 9 steps will disqualify you from the challenge:

1. Read the guidelines.

2. Include the Inspiration Item in any of the first 4 spots.

3. Do not use more than one item from any shop in your treasury. Use sixteen separate shops.

4. Leave a link to your treasury in our Entry thread on our team page
before Sunday at noon eastern. Please leave it one time only. Judges and
volunteers use this thread to find the current treasuries. You must
leave your link in the correct thread by the deadline to have
your treasury judged. Your link also needs to be there to have your
shop added to the sidebar list and to be added to the buyer account.

5. Tag your treasury with "nonteam" and "nonteamchallenge 220" (separated by a space before the number).

7. Only one entry per person if you have more than one Etsy account.
Only one entry per account if you have multiple people running a single
shop.

8. Support other participants - View/Comment/Click on as many other
treasuries in the Challenge as possible. Do not leave a link to your
treasury in the comments of another person's treasury.

9. Don't tag your non-team treasury with tags for other teams that you
are a member of. Our non-team treasuries are not meant to promote your
other teams.

*** Only participate if you'll be available to judge the next week's
Challenge - and report the winning treasury by the next Tuesday.
Judging is a hugely time-consuming job. There may be hundreds of
treasuries. Please only participate if you have the time to judge next
week.

*** Make sure that your shop is in compliance with Etsy's TOS. We won't
promote shops that are resellers, blatant copyright infringers,
purposeful mis-taggers, etc. Those shops are disqualified from winning
challenges.

Recommended (not required)...

* Become a follower of this blog to stay in touch with each new challenge, challenge winner, announcements, etc.

* Use items from other participating shops if you'd like and if their items fit your theme. Visit our Etsy buyer account to see items from shops that participated in the previous challenge.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Thank you so much again, Carice for choosing my treasury. It was my
first win in this fabulous team and I can't describe how happy I was to
receive all the outstanding entries as well as to learn a little bit
more about each of you talented people. I am so honored to be part of
this team, can't thank you all enough for this experience.

I was thrilled to see my garnet ring playing so many different roles in
different story lines, both in real and surreal settings. You wouldn't
know how many times I went back to all of your creations! It came down
to one though in the end, which is Gayle's"You Are Here."
I instantly fell in love with the warmth of it, inviting cozy feel with
such an uplifting positive vibe that I found is perfect for celebrating
the new year. I was also amazed how preciously she displayed these
colors. Simply beautiful...love it so much. Thank you &
congratulations!

Congrats to Gayle! She will be choosing the inspiration item for Challenge #220 from her shop ATwistOfWhimsy. She'll also be judging the Challenge. Check the team discussion page for a "Laying Odds" thread to make suggestions / predictions on the
inspiration item.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

A creative challenge open to all members of Etsy! Create a treasury
around the Inspiration Item. Win the Challenge and the Inspiration Item
for the next Challenge will be something of yours! Who knows how many
treasuries will be created with your item!?

Yoko from JooniJewelry will
be judging the Challenge this week. It is totally up to her as to what
she is looking for. Make the best treasury you can and just maybe one
of your items will be featured in our next Challenge! Please read the
guidelines carefully before creating your treasury.

Failure to follow these 9 steps will disqualify you from the challenge:

1. Read the guidelines.

2. Include the Inspiration Item in any of the first 4 spots.

3. Do not use more than one item from any shop in your treasury. Use sixteen separate shops.

4. Leave a link to your treasury in our Entry thread on our team page
before Sunday at noon eastern. Please leave it one time only. Judges and
volunteers use this thread to find the current treasuries. You must
leave your link in the correct thread by the deadline to have
your treasury judged. Your link also needs to be there to have your
shop added to the sidebar list and to be added to the buyer account.

5. Tag your treasury with "nonteam" and "nonteamchallenge 219" (separated by a space before the number).

7. Only one entry per person if you have more than one Etsy account.
Only one entry per account if you have multiple people running a single
shop.

8. Support other participants - View/Comment/Click on as many other
treasuries in the Challenge as possible. Do not leave a link to your
treasury in the comments of another person's treasury.

9. Don't tag your non-team treasury with tags for other teams that you
are a member of. Our non-team treasuries are not meant to promote your
other teams.

*** Only participate if you'll be available to judge the next week's
Challenge - and report the winning treasury by the next Tuesday.
Judging is a hugely time-consuming job. There may be hundreds of
treasuries. Please only participate if you have the time to judge next
week.

*** Make sure that your shop is in compliance with Etsy's TOS. We won't
promote shops that are resellers, blatant copyright infringers,
purposeful mis-taggers, etc. Those shops are disqualified from winning
challenges.

Recommended (not required)...

* Become a follower of this blog to stay in touch with each new challenge, challenge winner, announcements, etc.

* Use items from other participating shops if you'd like and if their items fit your theme. Visit our Etsy buyer account to see items from shops that participated in the previous challenge.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

First I’d like to thank Adamandia and Dina for choosing my Fallen Petals
and giving me the opportunity to have such a lovely week.
And thank you to each person who took the time out of this busiest time of year to make a treasury featuring my little violin.
I loved seeing each story unfold – passionate dramas and charming fairy
tales all with music teeming through them. Every little vignette was
so well done – Impossible task to choose just one!
In the end I kept coming back to three… and then one… and then finally this…

It reminds me of everything I love about music and the stage – a sense
of wonder and anticipation with sparkling lights and talented artists –
the perfect story for a little violin to tell.
Thank you
PS I’m away for a few days so the HMs will be a little late getting posted

Congrats to Yoko! She will be choosing the inspiration item for Challenge #219 from her shop JooniJewelry. She'll also be judging the Challenge. Check the team discussion page for a "Laying Odds" thread to make suggestions / predictions on the
inspiration item.

Due to the holidays, Yoko has elected to postpone Challenge #219 until next week. It will run from January 1st through 4th.

That's right. It's not a typical team! Anyone can participate. No commitment. Just join in the current Challenge. Come back next week to participate again if you'd like. Great way to have fun, meet other etsians, and receive shop exposure.
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